sandboxie

[Bozo]

I just downloaded and installed this program. Has anyone else used it?
Thoughts?

 

[Handruin]

I've never tried it, but I believe it was mentioned somewhere in the forum in the past. How proven would it actually be to contain malicious software in a given region of the drive. What stops the code from writing elsewhere if something malicious is executed? I would still feel safer having something in a VM.

 

[Mercutio]

I believe it essentially does the same thing as running IE on Vista/7 (reduced privilege mode), and that a majority of malware exploits are in no way hampered by that.

 

[mubs]

I've been meaning to try it, never have the time. Merc, from what I read, it is much more than that. It is more like a VM as Handy pointed out, where you can set it to return to "previous state". Optionally, you can create one folder where downloads can be stored, checked after exiting the browser, than moved elsewhere in the disk.